Maverick Pilot, Volume One

A boy dreams of flying. He's an outsider - still he dreams. A summer job at an airport leads to flying lessons. Shortly thereafter he's smuggling lobster off Mexican beaches in an old surplus airplane. Later, it's the Congo and a revolution. Followed by a CIA operation in Laos where making dangerous airdrops to the Royalists fighting the communists is the mission. Then Vietnam, and more adrenaline-pumping excitement. He lives his dream with luck, pluck and always knowing the glass is half-f...